Re: [Firebird-devel] support file permissions (tightening security)

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reed mideke schrieb:

> > If anyone knows who needs what permissions to these files it will help me
> > make a more secure release.  Also, do you know if you need to be root to
> > completely build Firebird?
> You should not need to be. You will probably need to be root to set
> the final permissions on the files (ie, when you install).

There are still some steps in the actual build process that fail
if you are not logged in as root.

I have tried it recently, but I got a lot of lock_manager
errors about not being able to get exclusive rights on
the lock table or so.

Frank

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